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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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General Overviews
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Peripheral Transduction and Encoding
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Structure Connectivity and Transmitter Agents in the Somatosensory System
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Representations, Mapping and Modifiability
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About this book
This book examines the search for building blocks of perception and the study of the neural mechanisms of tactile perception ie the neuronal representation of the external world relayed through the somatosensory system. It includes important experimental and theoretical advances in research on somesthesis. The most recent developments in quantitative techniques used in the nervous system are explained, from peripheral transduction, structure connectivity and transmitter agents to plasticity and dynamic cortical mechanisms. Each contributor discusses the significance and implications of current neurobiological knowledge essential for an understanding of tactile perception.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Information Processing in the Somatosensory System
Editors: Ove Franzén, Jan Westman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11597-6
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 467
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Human Physiology